Gallup’s 1936 sample of 6000 voters made sampling method famous

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George Gallup, one of the pioneers of modern opinion research, who in 1936 had used a small but representative sample of 6000 voters to give an accurate prediction of the result of the American presidential election, thus making the sampling method famous virtually overnight, sent a telegram of greetings to the German pioneers who followed in his wake. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1925

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